In today’s New York Times, Bill Carter recaps Keith Olbermann‘s rise at MSNBC in a story titled “MSNBC’s Star Carves Anti-Fox Niche.” Read page one for the analysis of Bill O’Reilly‘s aging audience, and read page two for this:
“…Olbermann said the administration had created enough disaffection to keep both his ratings and his outrage up.
‘The country gave this president every imaginable benefit of the doubt,’ he said, about the period following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. ‘He abused it. You know what Lincoln said: You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of time. But it looks like you can’t fool all of the viewers all of the time, endlessly.'”
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